She's taking matters into her own hands.

While relief efforts for Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria have been complicated and slow (and fraught with politics), one celebrity decided to take matters into her own hands. Real Housewives of New York star and businesswoman Bethenny Frankel organized her own incredible relief effort to help.

Bethenny chartered four planes this week that delivered over 20,000 pounds of supplies to people in need in Puerto Rico, PEOPLE reports. Among the donated items were water, medical supplies, diapers and baby food, non-perishable meals donated by City Harvest and Feeding America, gift cards, and cash. The four planes, which came from Florida and New Jersey, are also cleared to take people back to the U.S. for medical attention.

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Bethenny herself traveled to the island to help distribute goods, still sporting facial stitches from a skin-cancer surgery, just one week after she traveled to Mexico to help survivors of a major earthquake.

“This is a forgotten island,” she told PEOPLE. “People have been living on their roofs for 13 days. It is like nothing I have ever seen. People’s entire homes and cars are immersed in mud.” She was shocked by the total devastation of the American territory, saying, "Every palm tree is rooted. This b-tch hit every inch of this island."

The relief effort was funded by a combination of Bethenny's own money and donations to her charity, B Strong. She's on track to raise $1 million in funds and supplies just for Puerto Rico. She arrived on the island on Monday, and has been documenting the experience on social media, urging her followers to donate to the cause.

Other celebrities have pitched in to offer aid to Puerto Rico, too. Jennifer Lopez donated $1 million of her personal funds to Puerto Rico relief efforts, according to the Hollywood Reporter, and started a GoFundMe with her ex-husband Marc Anthony to raise more money for the island. Pitbull sent his private plane to Puerto Rico to transport cancer patients and other people needing medical attention back to the U.S., according to CNN. And tons of stars are sharing photos of their awkward phases, using the hashtag #PuberMe, to raise awareness about the situation on the island.

Despite these incredible efforts, people on the ground say the island has a long way to go before things are even close to "normal" again.

"Now is when people are dying," Bethenny told PEOPLE. "They are starving. They are thirsty. They cannot communicate. They cannot bathe themselves. They wash their babies and laundry in street water." She added: “It is a war zone."

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